South Cerney

Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.

Citation:

'South Cerney', in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds( London, 1976), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/pp105-106 [accessed 23 November 2024].

(3 miles S.E. of Cirencester)

A Romano-British burial in a lead coffin, discovered in a gravel pit in 1941 (TBGAS, 76 (1957), 157–60), has no precise location. The coffin is lost.

(1) Enclosure and Parallel Ditches (SU 053986), undated, on South Cerney airfield, show as crop-marks. The precise direction of the parallel ditches could not be plotted with certainty; they are irregular, about 90 ft. apart and 1,400 ft. long. The enclosure lies on the N. of the ditches. Some other ditches may be of recent origin. Plan, p. 106.

N.M.R., OAP SU 0598/1/169–72.

(2) Rectangular Enclosure (SU 05599830), undated, on the S. side of Northmoor Lane, shows as a cropmark about 90 ft. by 40 ft., with a gap in the S. side.

C.U.A.P., OAP AYG 42.

**South Cerney (1–3) Enclosures etc. and possible Trackways.**

(3) Trackways (?) and Enclosures (SU 063979), undated, W. of Sisters Farm, show as crop-marks at about 300 ft. above O.D.

C.U.A.P., OAP AYG 40–1. N.M.R., OAP SU 0697/5.